Fred D'Aguiar

• Feb-1995
• / General Fiction
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Written in taut, poetic language, THE LONGEST MEMORY is set on a Virginian plantation in the 19th century, and tells the tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write, in fallin...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction
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Ever since Red Head had been hit in the head by an ax at age nine, he has experienced terrifying visions of the future, and his magically inclined family members help him accept the strangeness and wonder of his life, but the possible reelection of a...

• Jan-1999
• / Suspense
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Inspired by a true story, this suspenseful and deeply moving novel chronicles an incident of courage and rebellion that took place aboard a disease-riddled slave ship returning from Africa. It was called Zong, and when disease threatens to infect all...

• Sep-2001
• / General Fiction
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Like no poetry you've ever known before, Fred D'Aguiar's novel-in-verse sweeps you up in the scintillating story of a young female slave who falls in love with the son of the plantation owner and runs away with him in search of a new life. En route t...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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A Caribbean country on the verge of collapse. A small town called Boundary. A rambling house inhabited by three generations of the Abrahams family. And a little girl who is trying to make sense of it all. Bethany Bettany is five years old when her fa...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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Acclaimed novelist, playwright, and poet Fred D’Aguiar has been short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize in poetry for Bill of Rights, his narrative poem about the Jonestown massacre, and won the Whitbread First Novel Award for The Longest Memory. In ...